Gun wad of cork material



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K Inl testimony whereof I have -signedthisu I. speciication this 19thv dal-yv ofeSept'eiriloen v` Certificate -of Correction.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. 1,546,419, granted July 21, 1925, upon the application of Enrique Vincle, of Barcelona, Spain, for an improvement in Gun lVads of Cork Material, an error appears in tlfle printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, .Aline 49, for the Word intricate read integral; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record oit-he case in the Patent Office.

' Signed and sealed this 22d day of September, A. D. 1925. v [SEAL] rff KARL FENNING,

\ '3, Acting ommz'ssoner of Patents. 

